Though housing is less devastated here, not everyone in Oklahoma is so lucky

 
By Paula Burkes
Published: February 26, 2008

Oklahoma isn't suffering the foreclosure casualties as elsewhere in the country, where countless homes aren't selling and others are being abandoned because owners can't make payments.

The number of foreclosures in the state was down more than 12 percent last year. Still, the mess in the mortgage industry is hitting home for some Oklahomans.

Bob and Dorothy Harper of Yukon grudgingly put their dream home up f...


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